bush and his administration. we now have 12 years where we can think about our reactions to what happened and analyze it and obama can approach these issues with a cooler head. that said, the rhetoric that that came out of that period turns out not to have been helpful and i they the president believes is that we can manage and contain the threat of islamist terrorism, that this country strong enough to manage it and deal with in the a mature way and another quick point-- and this is my clear impression sds is that he was heartened by the reaction of typical americans, the average american, to the boston attacks. in other words, there was no clamor to try this surviving suspect in a military tribunal. people said the courts are fine. there was no, ma'am large-scale or even small-scale retaliation against muslims. >> rose: but, i mean, this is -- interesting to add to this discussion if you look at boston and other places, ray kelly made a speech in dallas and he basically said he's worried by the rise of terroris